This is Amazing - By Josh Marshall
By JOSH MARSHALL Published APRIL 26, 2017, 9:04 AM EDT
This is really quite astounding. In this mornings edition of Mike Allens not-Playbook from Axios he introduces what seems to be Ivanka Trump setting up something that sounds a lot like the Clinton Foundation, only in this case run from within the White House by a top presidential aide who is also the Presidents daughter, who also runs her own large international company and who also has two brothers who are currently running the President/Fathers company and trying to rake in as much money as possible on the fame and power of the presidency. Also, lets be honest, the Trumps are a notoriously corrupt family, especially when it comes to running foundations.
No less astounding is that Allen never mentions that theres anything problematic about this or that it doesnt mimic in a wildly more corrupt way what President Trump nominally ran most of the 2016 campaign against.
Whats worth asking is this: Is this even envisioned as a foundation and non-profit? Or is Ivanka setting up something like a venture capital or private equity fund? i.e., one designed to make a profit?
As is the case on many other fronts, Trump and his family ran the 2016 campaign not so much against Hillary Clinton but a looking glass Hillary Clinton which was actually what they aspired to be and do if they won.
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(6,008 posts)you simply have to look at what they accuse others of. The first play in their playbook is projection, they assume everyone is as corrupt and bereft of morals as they are.